[squeak-dev] Class cleanUp protocol

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Sat Feb 27 08:20:21 UTC 2010




On 2/26/10 9:41 PM, "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> Apologies for the many commit messages but I've adopted Keith's proposed
> cleanUp protocol for classes. After writing a few more custom cleanups I
> was just to fed up with all of the magic lore in this area. Instead, we
> now have a common cleanUp protocol:
> 
> MyClass class>>cleanUp: aggressive
> 
> This (class-side) method is called with an argument that indicates
> whether to do aggressive, i.e., potentially destructive cleanup. Doing
> aggressive cleanup will delete projects, change sets, uni-classes and
> more. Gentle cleanup is expected to only flush transient caches. If your
> class only has gentle cleanup you can simply implement
> 
> MyClass class>>cleanUp
> 
> By default #cleanUp: delegates to this method (similar to
> startUp/startUp: and shutDown/shutDown:). You can run cleanup by executing:
> 
> Smalltalk cleanUp. "gently"
> Smalltalk cleanUp: true. "aggressive"
> 
> There is probably still more cleanups but I've taken a first round on
> adding those cleanups that I was aware about. Hopefully, we can now put
> all the various magic cleanup methods in ReleaseBuilder and Smalltalk to
> rest.
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
+1
Edgar






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